“CONSENT” by Jennifer Funk (poetry, ’16)
An excerpt from “CONSENT by Jennifer Funk (poetry, ’16) published at Four Way Review:
CONSENT
As if you could dig it up like a carrot
or shake it loose from the branches.
As if you could thwack it in half
like a coconut, could drink the milk
sloshing inside and be revived, as if you could command it
onto your tongue, as if it had a taste,
as if it could be poured or caught or captured or held
or worried loose like a tooth, a knot, a nail, as if it were an eye
fixed on a snake bisecting the path.
As if it could be summoned and hooded, […continue reading here]